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April 27, 2011

WIP Wednesday

This is the second WIP Wednesday for me. I hope I am a bit more organized this time after seeing all of the other bloggers WIP's posts.

First up is my Dresden Plate....I have made some progress on it. I got all the wedges sewn together and placed on the blocks. It will take me a while to hand stitch them down but I plan on working on this over the summer because I will be without a sewing machine for a while. The cream print squares will be the made into the circles for the centers. There will be sashing between the blocks. I have one of the green prints for that and the binding.

Next is a quilt that I made last year (a 9 Patch) and had problems getting the fabric for the border. I tried to order some and it was on backorder for about 3 months. Finally, they said they couldn't get any more. Then after that while my hubby and I were traveling about I found some in a quilt shop about 3 hours from here, lucky me. The top is done but I need to piece the backing yet, it is put on hold for now.

My best friend had a birthday earlier this month and I made her a table topper. I am late I know but it is almost done. I finally got all the quilting threads pulled in tonight and started hand stitching the binding down. This is the Paddle Wheel block from Kim Brackett's book, Scrap Basket Sensations. What a fun block to make. She has so many nice quilts in that book and they are all 2.5 inch strip quilts.

I am also starting to cut fabric for some one inch hexagons to work on over the summer months. I have plenty of small scraps to use up and some more hand stitching is in order. I will keep you up to date on that one as well.

Thanks for all the great comments from last week I really enjoyed reading them. I also enjoyed visiting your blogs, what inspiration you all give to me. I did try and visit everyone's blog but I am sure that I missed a few, sorry about that. Click on over to Freshly Pieced and enjoy some great blogs.

20 comments:

Oooh, I'm with you on the idea of some hexies. I've got a bunch of the templates, but haven't attempted them just yet. Can't wait to see you get started with yours - maybe that will motivate me at long last! Great progress this week :)

I love the 9 patch. Thanks for the comments about my quilts. I think the problem is the thread is just bad. It would sew just fine for 3-4 feet at a time and break a dozen times in a row, then be fine for a while. As much as I hate to throw anything out, I think that thread just needs to be trashed.